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reviews_and_ramblings) wrote2008-06-17 12:30 am
reviews_and_ramblings) wrote2008-06-17 12:30 am
King of the Castle by Nadine Nicholson
Yes, you know, I like teens stories, so you also know that I'm partial with that.
This one is truly a story for teens, and not a story with teens for adult. First of all there isn't sex, but only the mention of it, all we read are some pretty innocent kisses, hands in the backpocket of jeans (and no, not in the front pocket...) and very intense declarations of love, like only a teen could do.
Jamie and Kabe are sweethearts in an all male private high school, where all the adults, both parents than teachers, close eyes in front of the gay boys who frequent the school; actually the school itself is a mix of paradise and shelter where rich families send their "deviant" sons to gain an education and possibly not being beating for their sexuality.
Jamie and Kabe are the princess and prince of the school. Jamie is the prettiest boy, the unreachable guy who all the others want. Kabe is the strong sport hero, maybe not so clever like Jamie, but with a big heart. Plus Jamie has a lot of family issues, and he "adopted" Kabe's family as his own. They are the perfect couple, apparently unbreakable and with a rose future in front of them. And instead both Jamie than Kabe are not so sure and independent as they want to show, and insecurities can mine their relationship: the simple arrival of a new student who fancies Kabe, starts a chain of events that lead to a very dangerous situation.
All the story spans for only few days in the life of Jamie and Kabe, and it's right, since at that age, the lesser event seems huge and insuperable for a troubled kid.
As I said, there isn't sex in this story. Jamie and Kabe have a sexual relationship and the reader knows that they did something, but nothing of it exit from Kabe's bedroom, and you are not invited in.
For the setting, the quite original idea of an all gay highschool, and the characters, I'd like for the story to be a little longer, and instead it's less than 80 pages, but I think the author plans to write more on it, using the same setting and maybe different main characters.
The story is almost all in third point of view, apart some very brief points where all the three main characters, Jamie, Kabe and Sam, the new guy on the block, think in first point of view, giving to the reader their version of the same event.
All in all a pretty interesting book, only maybe too short.
http://www.lulu.com/browse/book_view.php?fCID=2714868
Waiting Reading List:
http://www.librarything.com/catalog_bott
This one is truly a story for teens, and not a story with teens for adult. First of all there isn't sex, but only the mention of it, all we read are some pretty innocent kisses, hands in the backpocket of jeans (and no, not in the front pocket...) and very intense declarations of love, like only a teen could do.
Jamie and Kabe are sweethearts in an all male private high school, where all the adults, both parents than teachers, close eyes in front of the gay boys who frequent the school; actually the school itself is a mix of paradise and shelter where rich families send their "deviant" sons to gain an education and possibly not being beating for their sexuality.
Jamie and Kabe are the princess and prince of the school. Jamie is the prettiest boy, the unreachable guy who all the others want. Kabe is the strong sport hero, maybe not so clever like Jamie, but with a big heart. Plus Jamie has a lot of family issues, and he "adopted" Kabe's family as his own. They are the perfect couple, apparently unbreakable and with a rose future in front of them. And instead both Jamie than Kabe are not so sure and independent as they want to show, and insecurities can mine their relationship: the simple arrival of a new student who fancies Kabe, starts a chain of events that lead to a very dangerous situation.
All the story spans for only few days in the life of Jamie and Kabe, and it's right, since at that age, the lesser event seems huge and insuperable for a troubled kid.
As I said, there isn't sex in this story. Jamie and Kabe have a sexual relationship and the reader knows that they did something, but nothing of it exit from Kabe's bedroom, and you are not invited in.
For the setting, the quite original idea of an all gay highschool, and the characters, I'd like for the story to be a little longer, and instead it's less than 80 pages, but I think the author plans to write more on it, using the same setting and maybe different main characters.
The story is almost all in third point of view, apart some very brief points where all the three main characters, Jamie, Kabe and Sam, the new guy on the block, think in first point of view, giving to the reader their version of the same event.
All in all a pretty interesting book, only maybe too short.
http://www.lulu.com/browse/book_view.php?fCID=2714868
Waiting Reading List:
http://www.librarything.com/catalog_bott
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